Carney is walking a political tightrope on our energy future

Clean energy is the path forward. Markets will eventually turn against fossil fuels, leaving taxpayers to shoulder the financial burden of supporting new infrastructure that lacks long-term payoff.
Prime Minister Mark Carney
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s current approach of appeasing our fossil fuel-producing provinces is based on short-term logic, writes Andy Hira.

Canada is standing at a fork in the road. One direction leads to continued investment in fossil fuels: new pipelines, government subsidies, and a failure to meet our climate change. The other road leads to increased investment in renewables: an east-west electricity grid, ec...

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